Garment.



C. C. PLUrMER.

GA-RMENI.

APPucmau FILED rea. 27. 1914.

1,280,587. l Patented 0@t.'1,`1918.

- N y i flameng/MM y @Mm CHARLIE c. PLUMER, oF CoNco'nD, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

f 4 GARMENT.

Specication 'of Letters Patent.

Application led February 27, 1914. Serial No. 821,468.

To all whom. it may concern: '4

Be it known that I, CHARLIE TEUMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Concord, in the county of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire, have invented new and useful Improvements in Garments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to garments .and more particularly to what has heretofore been known as broadfall trousers.

The principal objectin this type of trousers is of course to reduce a garment which may be more' readily applied and removed than the usual construction embodying a front fly. y

.mother object of the invention is to provide novel side connections and to produce a flap capable of carrying a side pocket.

Further objects of the inventionwill appear as the 'following descriptin is read in connection with the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this application, and in Which:- l Figure 1 is afront elevation -showing a portion ofthe fall or front ofthe trousers turned back to show one of the pockets.

Fig. 2 is a detail horizontal [section taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. p

In the specific embodiment of the invention as illustrated herein the trousers are formed of front leg portion 1, -2 and back leg portion 3, el, stitched together in the usual forni of broadfall trousers, z. e., having the inside leg seams continued throughout the crotch to the Waist-band 1n both front and the rear, as will be readily understood, The side seams terminate considerably short of the waist-band 5 and both front andy back portions are hemmed and properly felled to prevent ragged edges. Attached to the marginal side edges of the rear pieces 3 and 4 are flaps 6 slitted vertically as shown at 8, to provide an entrance into the pockets 7 which are stitched thereto around the slits. The fall 9 is formed by that portion of. the two front pieces 1 and 2 above the upper ends 16 of said side seams which, as shown, terminate oposite the lower ends of the pocket-slits 8. The side edges of the fall risel vertically from the points 16 to substantially square corners at the line of the front section of the waist band 5, and this section is attached to -the upperedge of the flaps by hooks and eyes 10 or in any other suitable manner. On the outside of theA waist-band are belt lopps 17, andthe inner side of the flaps have secured thereto the suspender buttons 11 which connect with' the front tabs of the Suspenders so .that in removing the trousers it is not necessary to disconect the suspenders each time. Y

If desirable, the fall may be provided with a blind ily and may have va Watch pocket such as is shown at.12'constructed in the'fall. j v 'Y The flaps 6 are extended at' the waist line by strips 13 joined together at their terminal ends by a hook 14 o r any other suitable manner. Thus it will be seen vthat the trousers will be properly supported even'when the fall is lowered and withouttheaid of vSuspenders. ,These flaps may be omitted or left unhooked where Suspenders are used- `and the suspender buttons may be omittedwhere a belt is employed and the trousers are usedas hip trousers. s

It will be seen that the pockets are supported entirely from the flaps, and the latter from the waist linewhether the strips are hooked together or not and whether the garment is supported 'by Suspenders or a belt.y The entrance to 'each pocket is through a slit which I preferably make ver-l tical as shown, but in any event it is covered by the corner of the broad fall when in place as seen at the left of Fig. l. Therefore loss of objects from the pockets is rendered less liable, while permitting the wearer yto insert his hands therein by pass- -ing`them u'nder the edges of the fall. The

latter also is of such breadth that extraneous objects will not accidentally drop into the Patented oet. 1,1918'1 i mouths of the pockets when covered by the fall, and the fact that the upper edge of the fall reaches to the waist line prevents dripping water or grease from getting inside the garment while the wearer is at work. If his Waist line should increase or decrease during the life of this garment, he can readily fit it to him by adjusting the connection between the meeting ends of the strips 13 and possibly also the position of the eyes 10 on the flaps 6 where the corner hooks on the fall engage them. The presence of an additional pair of hooks and eyes between' the fall and the inner edges of the iiaps 6, avoids the absolute necessity for connecting the i inner extremities of the strips 13 at all times, especially as these strips are coveredby the waist line of the fall under ordinary conditions. Even suppose that the wearer should become quite corpulent during the life of this pair of trousers, it yet might be adapted to him by opening the side seams and letting out the material. This possibility flows from the fact that the pockets are set into slits in the flaps 6 and not in the side sea-ms which may therefore be adjusted Without intrfering with the pockets.

` What is claimed is The herein described garment comprising a pair of rear leg pieces making up the rear portion, a lpair ot front pieces making up the front portion, lines of stitching connecting the inner edges of the rear and front pieces to the crotch and upward in each por* tion above the same, other lines of stitching connecting the outer edges of the front and rear pieces to points considerably below the Waist-band, the front portion being free above vsaid point to constitute a broad fall substantially right-angular at its upper end,

assets? be1t-1oops on the waist line of both portions, flaps connected with the side edges of the rear pieces and having vertical slits, front pockets Whose mouths are united to the Hap around such slits, strips attached to the free edges of the aps at the front waist line and having means for detachably connecting their inner ends, suspender buttons inside the Waist-line at the upper ends of said flaps, and detachable fastening devices inside the waist line' of the tall and outside the waist line of the flaps whereby the side edges of the fall cover the slits when its corners are fastened.

In testimony whereof I alix my signature in presence o twowitnesses.

' CHARLE C. PLUMER.

Witnesses:

' E. B. GREENLEAF,

JOHN J. MoDoNALD. 

